The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-05-19
GO AND TELL JESUS.
Dr.. Talmage's Advice to All Who Are
in Trouble.

from TelnptatlOn-Au VINO ANo UNAJ
in Christ Must Suffer Persecution.
BROOKLYN, May Sat the Tabernacle
this morning the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage,
D. D., gave notice of the annual Pilgrim
age OF his congregation, which this year
will be to Martha's Vineyard, Mass; IL
will begin July and end July z. Dr. Ial-
mage will preach at Matthias vineyard on
July 3, and deliver an Grafton on the Fourth
The congregational singing at the Iaper-
nacle is led by cornet and organ. boy
choir chants twice during the service. The
hymn sung by the congregation this morn
ing begins:
Sun Of my soul, thou Saviour dear,
1t is not night If Thou be near.
DR.. Talmage's text was: sand his dis
eiples went and told Jesus"-Matthew XIV
IL. He said
An outrageous assassination has just
taken place. To appease revengetul we-
man, King Herod ordered the death OF that
noble. seif-sacriicing Christian John the
Baptist. The group Of the disciples were
thrown into grief and dismay. They felt
themselves utterly defenseless. There
was no authority to which they could
appeal, and yet grief must always find ex-
preston. IL there be no human ear to
hear it, then the agonized soul will cry 1t
aloud to the winds and the woods and the
waters. But there was an ear that was
willing to listen. There is tender pathos,
and at the same time a most admirable
picture. in the words of my text: "Ihey
went and told Jesus He could under
stand all their grief, and he Immediately
sootbed it. Our burdens are not more than
half so heavy to carry if another Is thrust
under the other end of them. Here we
find Christ, his brow shadowed with grief,
standing amid the group OF disciples, VINO,
with tears and violent gestcuIations and
wringing of hands and outcry of bereave-
ment, are expressing their woe. Raphael,
with his skillful brush putting upon the
wall of a palace some scene OF sacred
story, gave not so skillful stroke as when
the plain hand OF the evangelist writes:
@They went and told Jesus"
The old Goths and Vandals once came
down upon Italy from the north of Europe,
and they upset the gardens, and they broke
down the affairs and swept away everything
that was good and beautiful. SO there Is
ever and anon in the his DRY of all the sons
and daughters of our race an incurslon OF
rough handed troubles that came to plum
der and ransack and put to the torch all
that men highly priced. There is no cave
SO deeply cleft into the mountains as to
allow us shelter, and the foot of the feetest
courser cannot bear us beyond the quick
pursuit. The arrows they put TO the string
fly with unerring dart, until we fall pierced
and stunned.
feel that bring to you most appro.-.
pirate message. | mean to bind up all
your griefs into a bundle and set thcm on
fire with a spark from Gods altar. The
same prescription that cured the sorrow of
the disciples will cure all your heartaches.
I have read that when Godfrey and his
army marched out to capture Jerusalem, as
thev came over the hills, ut the first fash
OF the pinnacles of that beautiful city, the
army that had marched in silence lifted a
shout that ade the earth tremble. oh,
YOU soldiers Jesus Christ, marching on
toward heaven, l would that to-day, Ey
some gleam from the palace of Gods mercy
and Gods strength, yon might be lifted
into great rejoicing, and that before TINS
service is ended you might raise one glad
hosanna to the Lord
In the first place, commend the be-
havior of these disciples to all those in this
audience who are sinful and unpardoned.
There comes time in almost every mans
history when he feels from some source
that he has an erring nature. The thought
may not have such h It as to fell him. it
may be only like the lash in an evening
cloud Just after a vc'g hot summer day.
One man to get rid OF hat impression will
go to prayer; another viii stimulate him
self by ardent spirits, and another man will
dive deeper i'll secuarities. But sometimes
man cannot get rid of these impressions.
The fact is, when a man finds ont that his
eternity is poised upon perfect uncer-
tainty, and that the next moment his foot
may slip, he must do something violent 10
make himself forget where he stands, or
else fly for refuge.
If there are any here who have resolved
that they would rather die of this awful
cancer of sin than to have the heavenly
surgeon cut it out, let me say, my dear
brother, you mingle for yourself bitter
cup. You fly in the face Of your everlast-
ing interests. You crouch under yoke
and you bite the dust, when. this moment
you might rise up a crowned conquerof
Driven and perplexed and harassed as you
have been by sin, go and tell Jesus. To
relax the grip of death from your soul and
plant your unshackled feet Ut on The
golden throne Christ let the tortures of tho
bloody Mount transfx Him. With the
beam of His own cross He will break down
the door of your dungeon. From the
thorns of His own crown He will pick
enough gems to make your brc-v blaze With
eternal victory. In every tear on His wet
cheek, in every cash Of His side, in ever
long, blackening mark of laceration from
shoulder to shoulder, in the grave shatter.
ing, heaven storming death groan, heaI
Him say: "Him that cometh unto me,
will in no wise cast out"
"Oh," but you say, "instead of curing
my wound you want to make anothe
wound, namely, that of convlctlon!" Have
you never known a surgeon to come and
find chronic disease, and then with sharp
caustic burn it all out2 So the grace Of
God comes to the old sore of sin. 1t has
long been ranking there, but by divine
grace it is burned out through these fires
of conviction, "the flesh coming again as
the flesh of little child" "where sin
abounded, grace much more aboundeth." !"
With the 10000 unpardoned sins of your
life, go and tell Jesus. You will never get
rid of your sins in any other way; and re-
member that the broad invitation which |
extend to you will not always be extended.
King Alfred, before modern timepieces
we're invented, used TO divide the day into
three parts-eight hours each-and then
had three wax candles. BY the time the
first candle had burned to the socket eight
hours had gone, and when the second con-
die had burned to the socket another g ght
had gone, and when all the three candles
were gone out then the day had passed.
Oh that some of us, instead of calculating
our days and nights and years by any
earthly timepiece, might calculate them by
the number Of opportunities and mercies
which are burning down and burning out,
never to be relighted, lest at last we be
amid the foolish virgins who cried: "Our
lamps have gone out!"
Again commend the behavior of the dis
ciples to all who are tempted. Ihave heard
men in mid life say they had never been
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temptation il is because you have not tried
10 do right A man hoppled and hand